Bungie likely to make new Call of Duty games

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Kirkland, WA and Santa Monica, CA — April 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Bungie, the developer of blockbuster game franchises including Halo, Myth and Marathon, and Activision, a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the #1 online games publisher (Nasdaq: ATVI), announced today that they have entered into an exclusive 10-year partnership to bring Bungie’s next big action game universe to market. Under the terms of the agreement, Activision will have exclusive, worldwide rights to publish and distribute all future Bungie games based on the new intellectual property on multiple platforms and devices. Bungie remains an independent company and will continue to own their intellectual property. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The groundbreaking alliance will provide Bungie its first such partnership since splitting off from Microsoft in 2007, significantly broadening its global reach by providing the resources and support to develop, distribute and release games worldwide on multiple platforms and devices.

Activision will broaden its portfolio with a new franchise from one of the industry’s most creative, successful and proven studios, whose games have sold more than 25 million units worldwide. To date, Bungie’s Halo games have generated approximately $1.5 billion in revenues, according to The NPD Group, Charttrack and GfK. Activision expects this agreement to be accretive to its operating margins as of the release of the first game.

“We chose to partner with Activision on our next IP because of their global reach, multi-platform experience and marketing expertise,” said Harold Ryan, President of Bungie. “From working together over the past nine months on this agreement, it is clear that Activision supports our commitment to giving our fans the best possible gaming experiences.”

“Bungie is one of the premier studios in our industry and we are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to work with their talented team over the next decade,” stated Thomas Tippl, Chief Operating Officer of Activision Blizzard. “Bungie has developed some of the most compelling and successful games, multiplayer experiences and thriving fan communities, and this alliance underscores our long-standing commitment to foster the industry’s best creative talent. Our unprecedented partnership with Bungie will enable us to broaden our pipeline of exciting new games as we continue to strengthen our industry position and pursue long-term growth opportunities.”

Members of the media can visit Activision’s Broadcast Media Center to download broadcast quality video, web-ready video and high-resolution images. Members of the media using Pathfire can take advantage of a Pathfire enabled video download. Sound bites from Thomas Tippl and Harold Ryan along with b-roll footage regarding today’s announcement are available for download. Broadcast Media Center: http://www.usngondemand.com/index.php.

About Bungie
Bungie, now 180 employees strong, was founded in 1991 with two simple goals: develop games that combine brilliant technology, beautiful art, compelling stories and deep gameplay, and sell enough copies to achieve its real goal of total world domination. Over the past 10 years it has produced games such as the “Marathon Trilogy” and the first two “Myth” games, hailed as classics by critics and gamers around the world. Bungie’s “Halo” franchise is an international award-winning action franchise that has grown into a global entertainment phenomenon, selling more than 25 million units worldwide, spawning best-selling novels and award winning soundtracks. Players have logged nearly 2 billion hours of multiplayer action over Xbox LIVE, created millions of pieces of user created content, and established a ravenous fan community. More information on Bungie can be found at http://www.bungie.net.
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Sweet sweet irony.
 
"it is clear that Activision supports our commitment to giving our fans the best possible gaming experiences.”

lolwut

Like they did with IW? :p
 
I don't see how Bungie partnering with Activision means that Bungie will be making COD games. Are Infinity Ward about to start making Guitar Hero games?
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
I don't see how Bungie partnering with Activision means that Bungie will be making COD games. Are Infinity Ward about to start making Guitar Hero games?
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This.
No where does it say that they will be involved with the Call of Duty franchise.
 
I very much doubt they will be doing the CoD games or at least I hope they won't be since they will be stuck working on them for the rest of their careers ;)
 
it clearly states A NEW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. now if your having trouble understanding what that means it means they are NOT making a Call of Duty game.

And before someone decides to say it, this also means they will NOT be making Halo games.


about the point: its rather unfortunate they have decided to go with acti in my opinion , however halo games on 360 are clearly in capable hands with studio 343 so im not that bothered at all really.
 
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Activision, more lives than a cat.

That said it looks like Activision are only publishing games made by Bungie and will not have a creative hand in the games.
 
Boo, had such high hopes for Bungie, now their next game is just going to be a £50 bore-fest with £20 DLC every 3 months.

Hopefully there will be another exodus after they realise their franchise(s) were raped.

Do ActivisonBlizzard actually own the CoD IP?
 
Frapple said:
Boo, had such high hopes for Bungie, now their next game is just going to be a £50 bore-fest with £20 DLC every 3 months.

Hopefully there will be another exodus after they realise their franchise(s) were raped.

Do ActivisonBlizzard actually own the CoD IP?
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One potentially significant difference is that Infinity Ward is owned by Activision whereas Bungie will only be a partner. This means that Activision will have less control over what Bungie do, hopefully this will preserve the developers 'image' of a game as it is developed.

On the second point, iirc Actiblizz do indeed own the IP.
 
am i the only person that can't see a single mention of Call of Duty or Infinity Ward in that press release?

its highly doubtful Bungie will have anything to do with CoD since Activision still own Infinity Ward and Treyarch.
 
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